Mediacom Cries Foul Over Loan Grant

AUTHOR(S)

Haugsted, Linda

PUB. DATE

June 2006

SOURCE

Multichannel News;6/5/2006, Vol. 27 Issue 23, p14

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports on the decision of Mediacom Communications Corp. and the Iowa Cable Telecommunications Association to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa challenging the lack of transparency in the low-interest government loan from a program designed to push broadband into unserved rural communities. Information about the Broadband Grant and Loan Guarantee Program; Comments from Mediacom vice president for government relations Marvin Rappaport regarding the federal program.

ACCESSION #

21064896

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